Just an appreciation

[Bysheon]

I'm utterly retarded when it comes to any kind of programming so I am afraid I have nothing to contribute to the project.
Just wanted to say I'm really excited about ENIGMA and appreciate the effort you guys put in. Not only for myself -
a lot of GM users will love this.

GM is ofc very well suited for (and aimed at) non-programmers; more artistic/creative people who want a reasonably
manageable tool to work with. I think a lot of them (including me) often are quite passionate about there creations,
and would really appreciate optimizations like improved speed (loading times in particular), exe size and security.
We have been forced to either just suck it up or to move on to a real, full blown programming languange like C++
or maybe Java and yeah.. that's a pretty big leap, especially considering most of us are not really technical to begin with.

I made a basic gui/room in ENIGMA just to compare it with GM. GM exe: 2.15 MB, ENIGMA exe: 636 kB (and 374 kB UPX'd, which is cool).
That is a pretty huge improvement. Much faster loading too.

Anyway, thank you. If I could contribute to the project, I would.

Btw, I really like the interface too.

[RetroX]

GM is even larger when you have more than just a room.  It stores all of the sprites as separate bitmaps, and everything else is so uncompressed that it's seemingly like the opposite of compression.  Not to mention the ~2 MiB interpreter/pseudo-compiler that's included in every EXE.

[score_under]

ENIGMA exe: 636 kB (and 374 kB UPX'd, which is cool).

Tell Josh to fix this, ideally it should be way smaller... Try compiling with -s -Os or something to that effect...

[luiscubal]

On games, I consider speed to be more important than size, so I'd say -O2 or -O3 are better for ENIGMA than -Os. Not sure which ENIGMA uses...

[RetroX]

Ideally, you should use -Wall, -s, -O, -O1, -O2, -O3, and -Os at the same time.

[a2h]

Oxygen!

[Josh @ Dreamland]

Retro-- Most of those are mutually exclusive
Score_-- It gets about 300 KB with -Os, I believe. I can probably do some custom optimization to help that when the time comes.
Anyway, essay'ing to do, ciao.

[RetroX]

Retro-- Most of those are mutually exclusive

Well, I didn't know that.

[score_under]

Retro-- Most of those are mutually exclusive

Well, I didn't know that.

Also, turn on -pedantic and get ready to rip your hair out :p

[sprintf()]

I appreciate Enigma too.

[Josh @ Dreamland]

I hadn't realized you were still alive, Dave. I haven't heard from you in 204 days, 9 hours, 19 minutes, and 43 seconds; but who's counting?

[sprintf()]

Alive and kicking. Every once in a while I tend to drop off the internet map for a while. Then I found myself thinking of this place and couldn't resist popping in to say hi. I also went to GMOT to find it almost dead. GMC seems to have shrunk too. I'm glad to see this place hasn't gone the way of the dinosaurs.

[Josh @ Dreamland]

I don't believe I'll ever let it. A lot's changed since you've been here. Kinda makes me miss the old days. But, alas, progress is good. We're still in beta, if you want something to laugh about. But we're running out of reasons to be and things to blame on being in beta, so maybe we'll just call it a version after this. *shrug*

...Nah, this has always been the plan. Although that C parser I wrote took a bit longer than anticipated. Along with, well, pretty much all the other well-done components. I'm quite happy with the way things have been turning out... Bit more to organize, but yeah.

Anyway, how've you been?

*considers moving thread to off-topic, but doesn't care enough to*

[sprintf()]

Been good. Still writing the good codes, still fighting the machine, still puffin the herb.
I think my C++ skills have increased in those 205 days, but who knows for sure?

[freezway]

you two you each other irl?